Author of quotes: Xavier Dolan

Where I got so much confidence to become a Director in eighteen? Yes, out of nowhere. You just have to believe in their movies, and eventually others too believe in them. Now, I feel the critics have acknowledged that I am a Director, not a teenager, homework which they have to check.

I'm almost deaf in one ear, and you have to pay for it - I have loud music in the movies.

Someone hates me for what a movie about the nineties for me, it is historical. I was born in 1989, grew up in the nineties. Not that I once strongly held this period.

Because of my age, some critics see themselves as teachers, lecturing me. I am sure that it will soon pass. I'm really not worried, let them have fun at my expense.

- Are you committed to the theme of homoerotic, alternative sexual practices, and do it openly, without camouflage. Do you think that Frank reflection of this subject will help the growth of tolerance in the society?
- I look at it differently. You think I'm honest. Really? Throughout the film, "this is Laurence" the word "tranny" is pronounced only once. I repeat: I focus on the theme of love more than anything else. And in "I killed my mother", and "Imaginary love", and in this picture, try not to focus on physiological details. Very often don't call things by their names, because these names are perceived judgmental labels. After all, you wouldn't call the Coen brothers "Jewish filmmakers". Why did you, in fact, call me "Director - gay"? The word "gay" should not be judgmental sense, as in the word "Jew". I despise sticking any labels. I treat the movies as just movies. They are either effective or not.

People are basically afraid of different. Cultivated in society the opinion that transsexuality has, like homosexuality is a mental disease, while contagious. Children are kept away from gays and transgender people, fearing their influence.